NC population nears 10M as newcomers flock to Charlotte, other cities - Charlotte Business Journal

NC population nears 10M as newcomers flock to Charlotte, other cities - Charlotte Business Journal

Jen Wilson

Associate Editor/Online-Charlotte Business Journal

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North Carolina's population is nearing the 10 million mark as newcomers flock to Charlotte and other large cities in the state, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Time Warner Cable News reports  the agency estimated more than 9.8 million people called North Carolina home as of July, up about 100,000 from a year earlier. And about 42 percent of the state's residents were born elsewhere, Rebecca Tippett of UNC Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center told the cable news network.

Tippet added that the highest concentration of newcomers are flocking to the biggest N.C. cities: Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro, according to the report.

The increase in North Carolina's population amounts to about 1 percent. At the state's current rate of growth,  North Carolina could jump from the 10th-largest state in the U.S. to the ninth-largest by next year, according to the Triangle Business Journal. 

Meanwhile,  the U.S. population rose about 0.7 percent year-over-year, its lowest rate in more than 70 years, to 316.1 million, according to The New York Times.